Photo: Alan Place
PEOPLE’S Park on a sundrenched Monday morning proved the right setting for funky launch to Culture Night,Friday September 19 from 5pm on. A picture paints a thousand words… and Culture House complemented the occasion with no speech but maximum delivery.
Rolling out news of 70 free events taking place through out the city for Culture Night, Friday 19 and mostly from 5pm, Laura Ryan of Limerick Local Authorities was surrounded by painted beauties from the Urban Horse Herd.
Joined by this City of Culture legacy project’s Angela Connolly and children from St Patrick’s Girl’s School, one of 16 communities involved in their making, the Urban Horse theme of ‘Individuality and Identity’ translates well to Culture Night’s purpose.
Pat Cox, chair of City of Culture, will unveil 16 of them on site in the Park at 6pm on Friday.
Showcasing city and county venues, outdoors and in, for visual, literary, heritage, music and performance arts is something at which the local arts community excels.
One of the busiest parts of the city will be John’s Square, according to Limerick Arts Office’s Lizanne Jackman, with Limerick Youth Dance, Youth Theatre, Fresh Film Festival and Music Generation Limerick City participating; Irish dancers from Scoil Uí Ruairc will be out in formation.
Emma Gilleece was present in People’s Park for another Legacy project (Heritage pillar) opening out in Milk Market at 5pm, Culture Night.
“That’s Limerick City’ has been working with the five original city parishes to create ‘a living memory’ concept dating from 1934,” Emma told Limerick Post. “We want to show the everyday in images and objects.. using things that show changes in this century. We have weighing scales, cameras and original prints, a cinema projector, for example”.
The Ilen boat school at Howley’s Quay will reference the significance of the river to Limerick.
Sheila Deegan of Culture House explained how what looked like a wooden bicycle was, in fact, a mobile printing press created by Limerick Printmakers so that prints could be run off anywhere in the city.
“There are four in all, each different, and funded under ‘Made in Limerick’.”
County Limerick steps up to the plate with events in Kilmallock, Adare, Askeaton, Mungret, Hospital and more, every itinerary differing.
There’s far too much that is exciting and appealing to compact into a newspaper article so God speed to www.limerick.ie/ culturenight to plan your calendar for an eventful walk through the talent that Limerick fosters.
